Could someone map one's personal knowledge? Imagining hundreds of thousands of separate items of information, with, for example, knowledge about everyday life, the origins of words, musical instruments, cooking techniques, the rules or scoring systems of various games. This knowledge would form a complex web in anybody's mind. Most of it is useless in any given circumstances. If I am not in Madrid then the internalized subway map of Madrid in my brain is not useful. When I am not watching tennis, my knowledge of tennis scoring is inert.
How would you visualize the map of one's knowledge? In space: knowledge associated with particular places. In time. In thematic networks?
There could be areas of doubt or outright mistakenness. The biggest area would be unknowledge, areas where there is simply nothing: the grammar of a language I do not speak and have never studied.
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